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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is hosted by a selection of handsome Cockney Cats!
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| "The Sketch," December 16, 1953, via British Newspaper Archive |
Why the hell are ships sailing in circles?
What the hell is Cicada 3301?
What the hell is the Phaistos Disc?
Watch out for those cursed gemstones!
Watch out for Whipping Tom!
The trial of Oscar Wilde.
Escaping from occupied Europe, 1940.
The Duke of Wellington would have made a good babysitter.
A Cheltenham murder walk.
Paraguay can't get enough of Rutherford B. Hayes.
Eleanor of Aquitaine goes on crusade.
Papal Avignon gets violent.
East Asia's oldest carved figurine.
The life of the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great.
The cursed Irey family.
The Field of the Cloth of Gold: a Tudor extravaganza.
WWII's ghost army.
Mass murder at the Denmark Place.
The coldest of murder cases.
When Death comes a-knocking.
An undertaker's wooing.
The poisonous Nancy Doss.
Kathy Sullivan, who knows the highs and the lows better than anyone.
The girl who died singing.
The rather murky life history of a slave in 18th century England.
The Georgian era smelled to high heaven.
Isaac Newton was a big fan of toad vomit.
London's earliest theater has just been uncovered.
Cornwall's tin-mining gnomes.
Charles Dickens and the magic lantern.
A famed Spanish archaeological site.
If it's any consolation, news was weird back in the old days, too.
The poor cats of Hell's Kitchen.
Henry VIII and unicorns.
The most dangerous stretch of water in the world.
You can do a virtual tour of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctica hut.
That time Davy Crockett met Bigfoot.
How a famous clown avoided being buried alive.
Orkney gets a gift from the sea.
A mysterious mummy reveals an ancient family tragedy.
New York City and the "Croton bug."
When you're a serial bigamist, life is seldom dull.
A homicidal barber.
How a child's graffiti identified who owned a villa in Pompeii.
What comes after the discovery of buried treasure? That's right. Lawyers.
Nikola Tesla's death ray.
5,000 year-old Scottish fabric.
The history of Chateau de Saint-Cloud.
To anyone familiar with the Bay Area, it's no surprise that they now have a giant orange wheezing kazoo on their hands.
Mary Queen of Scots' bungled execution.
The link between Dracula and an Irish epidemic.
The Puppetmaster of Pennsylvania.
Does Antarctica have pyramids?
Outer space and the "overview effect."
A 1930s club for bohemians.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a tragic case of injustice in the Old West. In the meantime, here's some classic Motown.
Finally!!! Real music.
ReplyDeleteI was very interestd in the article on Hayes and Paraguay. I have read several books on the Chaco War, so I knew about the province and town named after Hayes, but didn't realise how popular he was in Paraguay - "a prophet is seldom honoured in his own country." To compare Hayes to Trump seems unfair - for many reasons, though Hayes's lack of scandals seems prominent among them. To have an administration in any country noted for a little reform, helping the poor and defending civil rights - and nothing very bad - seems the administration of a very successful leader.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a good article on the Duke of Wellington and children. What an interesting man he was. And that 'baby jumper' sounds exactly like one of those bouncing swing-seats parents put babies in these days.
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